All

It has been said that
Cigarettes
Are a way to hold
Fire
In a human's hand

It has been said that
Wine
Is the source of
Life

I say that
You
And I
Are yet the depth of
Love

And love
Is
Life
Is
Fire
Is all of
Faith
Is
Truth
Is
All

Is
All

Is
All

Clichés

Please don't tell me how great I am
If you're just gonna walk away
Frankly, I don't give a damn
I'm here and now, let's live the day

Don't let's wait another year
Before we dare embrace again
Falter to love and not to fear
Spread wide your heart, let love begin

Please don't waste another word
In lieu of love, then run from me
They're all the same; they've all been heard
Don't tell us both I'm best left free

When it's excitement in your ear
And rambling thoughts that sound like fear
In the stillness of your heart's rush
Is still the shadow of joyful blush

You found a soul with a widespread heart
Embarked with a mind whose life is art
So, come back, now, into widespread arms
Let me thrill you with feminine charms

Don't tell me, please, how great I am
If you're going to walk away
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
Carpe diem, love; sieze me today

Photo ©2016 MLM

Prisms of Love

Don’t you know?

I long to feel the skin upon your face,
The brush of whiskers nettled on your chin
And when I reach to touch, you to embrace
I find that I am forced to reach within

For - don’t you know?

I tremble all the day and all night long
My body eager, vibrating as you strum
The heartstrings of such a familiar song
Your fingers not yet on flesh; still, for you I thrum

And I cannot foresee another way
Than dancing deeply in a world unknown
So I will live and love another day
That one day, maybe soon, this depth be shown

That, maybe one day soon, I will be yours
And you’ll be mine, in body too;
That one day soon, we’ll dance through doors
In ethereal worlds we’ll live, both I and you

So, don’t you know?

My heart is bound to yours and lost to me
It’s yet my mind you kiss, that you must woo
And I, lost forever in this fantasy
Somehow made real, this life, by your love true

And - you must know!

Forever, in this time
That you are yours, and also I am thine;
That I belong to me, and you are mine!
That we are ours, forever-love sublime

Photo ©2016 MLM

Everlastingly Broken Free

You can put me on your list
Of women who still want you;

You can put me on your list
Of women you have broken;

You can put me on your list
Of those whose hearts you rule;

But I am still smiling
And I am still me
And I am still loving,
And I still love you
And I still break all the rules
And I walk into the night
With my self-made standards,
Still bright
Still brave
Still free

Love never gives up, but passion must be fed to last….

MzP
(via soul-and-blues)

The Will of Love

Your chaos
Is no match
For me

Your terror
Has no bearing
On me

Your fear
Has no strength
With me

Your pain
Has only grief
For me

I may become angry
I may become mad
But madness
In love
Is sanity
And anger
From love
Is truth

“No, I don’t want to leave you
Now, I don’t want to leave you
No, I don’t want to leave you
Now, I don’t want to leave you…”

Your chaos
Will calm

Your terror
Will stop

Your fear
Will fade

Your pain
Will depart

But my love
Never will.

* Song lyrics quoted from “Cold Front” by Laura Welsh

The Beasts Released

Would 
That I could make love with the chained part of you
Who knows me intimately,
Worships my intensity,
Reigns in eagerness to torture me

Would 
That I could kiss the merciless you
Who feels no guilt, relishes extremes
Whose anger feeds your vengeance
From deep and hidden streams

Would 
That you would punish me with pleasure, 
Hear me scream with raw delight
Bind me with lasciviousness
As is your exclusive right

Become the final shattering
Of our minds, aware, at once, 
Of our true natures' spattering

The crushing gravity of our hearts'
Union, destroy and heal
As the terrible gentleness imparts
Of Time made Timeless

Would 
That you would seal your gaze within my eyes,
Wander off to guard me in our world,
My beautiful one, to be forever tied
And free within unbound nativity

Awaiting The End

Passion emboldens me,
a temporary elixir

I rush, thrilled;
my veins fill thickly with
the thought of you:

Your eyes, holding my gaze,
filling my mind with
spears of scalding iron;

My memory flooded with
your presence
remade, revived intangibly,

My body reels helplessly,
retreats needfully
from this vision

To await you
To connect with you
To search for you
To find you

And the moment comes so suddenly,
every muscle in my body
tensing, aching, ready,
poignantly poised for

Your touch
Your gaze
Your appraisal
For you…

Then, you appear….